If you have a copy of the scriptures, we are going to start out in the book of Acts, chapter two.

I want to read to you a few verses from the day the church was born.

Some of you are familiar with this text, and I hope by the end of our time together,

all of you will be invigorated by it. I'm going to read it to you out of the King James version.

I know. It is getting full real up in here.

But there is a few phrases I just love in the King James, and so if you'll grant me that,

Acts two, starting in verse one, and when the day of Pentecost was fully come,

they were all with one accord in one place, and suddenly, someone say suddenly,

there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind,

and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire,

and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,

and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave the mutterance.

And at the same time as this happened, the text tells us for five,

that there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews devout men out of every nation under heaven.

And in the following verses, we have a chronicling of the reaction of these other people

from every nation while witnessing what God was doing in the hearts and lives of these believers gathered together

in this house that was now full of the Holy Ghost and full of people who are responding to the power now

upon them, that Jesus had promised before He left that made Him say,

the shocking but incredible statement, it's better for you that I leave.

Because if I leave my Spirit, cannot just be in one body with you,

wherever you 12 are, but my Spirit can come inside of all of you,

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